More staff for new consultancy office

A PLANNING consultancy that opened an office in Castle Donington a few months ago has taken on two new employees to cope with the growing workload.

Doug Moulton and Sarah Allsop have joined DLP Planning Consultants as senior planners to assist senior director Jim Lomas, who heads the office in Market Street.

The Castle Donington office – seventh in the Bedford-headquartered company's chain – was opened to serve the East Midlands, previously looked after by the Sheffield office.

The company provides planning and development advice to a range of private and public sector clients.

The office at Castle Donington is working on planning applications in the growing sector of solar farms at Temple Normanton, near Chesterfield, and Diseworth, Lockington, and Burton-on-the-Wolds in Leicestershire. Other schemes include a private hospital in Stafford and housing in Nottingham and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The office is also working with the local authority and landowners on the proposed Ripley-Codnor link road. Mr Lomas said: "It has been a busy time and I'm grateful that I now have a team in place to concentrate on our growing core workload."